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				<h2 id="measureheader">How To Measure</h2>
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				<p>No Assertions is concerned with two types of measurements, rider measurements and fit measurements. Below you will find images along with descriptions on how to take these measurements.</p>
				<p>You will find it significantly easier to get accurate measurements if you can recruit someone to help you measure yourself and your bike.</p>
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					<h3 class="typemeasurement">Rider Measurements</h3>
					<p>All measurements of your body should be taken of you when you're wearing your cycling shorts and a tight fitting jersey or, preferably no jersey. You should not be wearing socks or shoes. You'll need an ink pen, a sheet or two of paper, a small piece of tape, a level, and a metric tape measure.</p>
					<h4>ALL MEASUREMENTS SHOULD BE TAKEN IN CENTIMETERS!</h4>
					
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					<img src="<fmt:message bundle="${mess}" key="baseUrl" />img/measure/totalheight.jpg" class="floatleft"/>
					<h4>Total Body Height</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Total Body Height measurement is as it sounds, it's your height from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head when you're standing up. To measure your total body height, stand as straight as possible without straining and place your upper back and upper hip/buttocks against a wall. Your ankles should create a vertical line with knees and that line should be perpendicular to the floor. Look down and make sure you don't have your shoes on. If you don't have your shoes on, ask your assistant to place a level on the top of your head and mark where the level meets the wall. Measure from the floor to the marked line.</p>
					
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					<img src="<fmt:message bundle="${mess}" key="baseUrl" />img/measure/sternalnotch.jpg" class="floatright"/>
					<h4>Sternal Notch</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Sternal Notch measurement is the distance from the bottom of your feet to the sternal notch (the dip in the sternam/breastbone in front of your throat). To measure your sternal notch, stand as straight as possible without straining and place your upper back and upper hip/buttocks against a wall. Your ankles should create a vertical line with knees and that line should be perpendicular to the floor. Again, look down and make sure you don't have your shoes on. If you haven't somehow put your shoes on between measuring your Total Body Height and now, carefully place the end of the level on your sternal notch and ask your assistant to measure from the floor to the bottom of the level.</p>
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					<h4>Shoulder Width</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Shoulder Width measurement is the distance from the two points (or the bony protruding ends of your clavical, the acromioclavicular joints) on the top of your shoulders. To measure your shoulder width, stand up straight and relax your shoulders and neck. Keep your posture straight and your shoulders square and back, but not not bunch them up. Ask your assistant to stand behind you and measure from the inside (closest to your head) of one bony protrusion to the inside of the other. When measuring from the inside of the bony protrusion, measure just on the inside slope of the bony protrusion (not very far in).</p>
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					<h4>Total Arm Length</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Total Arm Length measurement is the distance your hand to the end of your arm at your shoulder (the end of the humerus). Before you begin this measurement, find something about the size of an ink pen or larger and wrap your hand around it to make a fist. Once you've made a fist around your ink pen, old your arm out straight in front of you and start rotating it around. With your other hand, feel the top of your should and get sense of where your upper arm bone, your humerus, pivots. This pivot point should be just in front the bony protrusion you found when measuring your Shoulder Width. Now that you've found that pivot point, stand up and put your back against a wall. Hold your fist out in front of you so that the ink pen is point to the ceiling and the floor and ask your assistant to measure from the inside of the ink pen (the side facing you) to the pivot point you just located.</p>
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					<h4>Humerus</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Humerus measurement is the length of your humerus bone, or upper arm. To measure your humerus, you'll need to use the top pivot point of the humerus bone you found when you measured your Total Arm Length and measure from that point to the lower pivot point of your humerus. To find the lower pivot point of your humerus, bend your arm at your elbow (making an L shape) and bring up so that your forearm is about level with your upper chest. With your humerus fixed, move your arm back and forth at the elbow. With your other hand, feel for the pivot point at the lower end of the humerus as you pull your fist near your chest and push it out. When you find this lower pivot point, as your assistnat to mark it with a small dot with your ink pen. This mark should be on the outside of your elbow/ the side currently facing the ceiling. Now, ask your assistant to measure form this mark to the pivot point at the top of your humerus (this is the same pivot point you found when you measured your Total Arm Length).</p>
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					<h4>Forearm</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Forearm measurement is the length of your forearm, or lower arm. To measure your forearm, you'll need to get your ink pen back out and make a fist using it. If you just measured your humuerus, you should have a mark representing the lower part of your humerus. Stand up with your back against a wall and put your humerus (upper arm) against the wall. Now, bend at the elbow and ask your assistant to measure from the ink pen mark, along the outside of your forearm to the inside of the ink pen in the center of yourst fist.</p>
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					<h4>Inseam</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Inseam measurement is the distance from the floor to your your pubic bone. To measure your inseam you'll need a longer level or a shorter level and an object with a long straight edge (something like a big book, metal pipe, or piece of wood works well). Stand up straight against the wall (make sure you haven't put your shoes on!) with your legs square to your shoulders (as you did when you measured your Total Body Height). Now that your standing up straight and against the wall, put the level between your legs and slowly bring up to your crotch. Pull the level up until it is firmly against your pubic bone. You should feel some pressure, but you shouldn't be in pain. Make sure the level is level, and ask your assistant to measure from the floor to the bottom of the level.</p>
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					<h4>Femur</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Femur measurement is the length of your femur bone, or upper leg bone. To measure your femur, you'll need to get your ink pen back out and you'll need a small piece of tape so that you can mark the the lower and upper pivots of your femur. To find the lower pivot, stand up and lift your leg and allow it to bend at the knee cap. Move your lower leg back and forth at the knee and use your hand to feel for the pivot point on the outside of your knee. You should be able to feel a bony protrusion that is the lower end of your femur with your hand when you bring your lower leg all the way back (your heel touching your buttock). Mark the lower end of this point with an ink pen. Now that you've found the lower pivot point of your femur, it's time to find the upper pivot point. To find the upper pivot point, stand up straight and bring your leg up and feel for the movement on the side of your hip. Continue to bring your leg up and push it down until you should feel a bony protrusion on the outside of your hip, in front of your buttock. Mark the upper end of this bony protrusion the piece of tape and ask your assistant to measure the distance between the outside edges of these points, along the outside of the femur.</p>
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					<h4>Tibia</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Tibia measurement is the length of your tibia, or lower leg bone. To measure the tibia, you'll use the lower femur measurement mark you found when measuring your femur as one point of your measurement and your ankle as the other point of your measurement. To find the lower point at the ankle, find the bony protrusion at the outside of the ankle and note the point that sticks out the most (the highest point). Ask your assistant to measure between that point the ink pen mark you made earlier, measuring along the outside of tibia.</p>
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					<h4>Foot Length</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Foot Length measurement is the total length of your foot. To measure your foot length, you'll need a piece of paper (or two taped together if you have long feet) and your trusty ink pen. If you have a sock on, remove it. Put the paper on the ground and stand up straight placing your foot entirely on the paper. Ask your assistant to trace your foot outline using the ink pen. Now, measure from the heel to the end of the longest toe (yes, that might be your second or third toe).</p>
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					<h4>Trunk</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Trunk Measurement is the total length of the trunk, or core of your body from your butt while seated to the top of your shoulder. To measure your trunk, get your level back out and have a seat on the floor. While seated on the floor, but your back and butt squarely against at wall and take a deep breath. Relax your shoulders, but don't round them off and ask your assistant to place the level on your acromioclavicular joint (the bony protrusions on top of your shoulders you found when meausuring shoulder width). Once your assistant has the level on your acromioclavicular joint, mark the the point where the lower face of the level meets the wall and measure from that point to the floor.</p>
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					<h3 class="typemeasurement">Bike Fit Measurements</h3>
					<p>To measure your bike you'll need a plumb bob (a long piece of string with a weight tied to one end), a strip of tape, and a tape metric tape measure.</p>
					<h4>ALL MEASUREMENTS SHOULD BE TAKEN IN CENTIMETERS!</h4>
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					<h4>Saddle Height</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Saddle Height measurement is the distance from the center of your bottom bracket, along the seat tube, to the top of your saddle. To measure your saddle height, place one end of your tape measure at the center of your bottom bracket and run that tape along the center of the seat tube of your bike to the top of your saddle. It's important that the tape is straight and runs along the center of the seat tube all the way from the center of the bottom bracket to the top of the saddle.</p>
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					<h4>Hood Width</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Hood Width measurement is the width of your handle bars measured from the outside of your hoods. To measure your hood width, find the outside edge of your brake hoods, just beyond where they meet the bars, measure to the outside of these points. The points to which you are measuring should be roughly where you rest the base of your hand when you're riding.</p>
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					<h4>Floor to Bars</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Floor to Bars measurement is the total distance between the floor and the top of your handle bars. Before you take this measurement, be sure your bike is resting on a level floor (not on a trainer or bike stand) and that the handle bars are level (the bike shouldn't be leaning at an extreme angle against a wall). Measure from the floor to the top of the handlebars. You should measure to the "top of the bars" or where straight section where you rest your hands when not on the hoods and not in the drops. Be sure to measuring where you'd rest your palm and not right next to the stem (where the bar may be tapered if it's an oversize type of bar).</p>
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					<h4>Floor to Saddle</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Floor to Saddle measurement is the total distance between the floor and the top of the saddle. As with the Floor to Bars measurement, be sure your bike is on level ground and that it is not mounted on a trainer or bike stand. Before you get the tape out, find the lowest part of your saddle and make a note of it. This lowest part of the saddle is where the dip or hammock of the saddle is most extreme and closest to the floor. This may or may not be inline with the seat tube. Now, get your tape measure out and measure from the floor (it's probably easiest to measure the bike on the non-drive side), keeping the tape straight, to the lowest dip in the top of the saddle.</p>
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					<h4>Center to Bars</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Center to Bars measurement is the distance from the vertical line created by your bottom bracket to the center of your bars at the stem. This measurement is a little tricky and you'll probably need an assistant or a way to drop a plumb line above the bike (a string attached to a nail in the center of a doorway). The idea is that you want to create a vertical plane that bisects your bottom bracket. That is, you want a line that runs perpendicular to the floor and directly through the middle of your bottom bracket (running the line on the non-drive side of your bike is probably easiest). From your vertical line, measure the distance to the center of the handle bars at your stem. Be sure that your stem is pointing forward and is in line with the top tube of your bike.</p>
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					<h4>Center to Saddle</h4>
					<p class="measdesc">The Center to Saddle measurement is the distance between the vertical line which runs through your bottom bracket to the widest part of your saddle. The vertical line through your bottom bracket can be found the same you found it when measuring Center to Bars. The widest part of your saddle is as it sounds, it's the widest part of your saddle. To find this, use your tape measure (or better yet, a caliper if you have one) to find the absolute widest part of your saddle by standing over the saddle and looking down at it. Mark this line across the top of the saddle with the edge of a piece of tape. Measure from the edge of the piece of tape to your vertical line.</p>
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